Every second-language speaker knows: You’re fluency is only as good as your last sentence. We scientists call it “B-language terror,” that moment when the words free, and you are left deaf and dumb in a world beyond your understanding. Like one of those nightmares standing naked and speechless in front of English class. Now the […]

Just a reminder of the importance of accuracy to the translator’s trade.  Translator error can kill. Even a “one” mistranslated as a “zero” spells “doom” if the ambulance goes to the wrong address. That’s according to a $3 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Spanish 9-1-1 telephone interpreter under contract to the City of Portland.  […]